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Jesus
said, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have
faith also in me. In my Father's house there are many dwelling places.
If there
were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for
you? And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take
you to
myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know
the
way." Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are
going; how can we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way and
the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
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"Sunday morning rain is falling and clouds
are shrouding us in moments unforgettable. You twist to fit the mold
that I am in. But things just get so crazy, living life gets hard to
do, and I would gladly hit the road, get up and go if I knew that
someday it would lead me back to you. That may be all I need. In
darkness she is all I see. Come and rest your bones with me. I'm
driving slow on Sunday morning, and I never want to leave."
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Maroon
5’s song “Sunday
Morning” is a love song and is
intended to be a
statement on behalf
of the one loved. She
is all he needs,
the man in the song sings, and, from his point of view, if only he
and she
could be together for the rest of their lives, their lives would be
happy.
This love song can enable us to turn our minds to a world that is in need of help. As we study the feelings of the lovers, we can ask the question, “What is all we need?” The Christian should answer with the thought of Scripture, “Jesus is all that we need; he is the way, the truth and the life.” For Jesus to be real, the Christian must truly accept Jesus as the way, truth and life with all that the phrase means. It means that we Christians will deliberately break the addiction to violence that we have; it means that we will control the pleasure that can get out of hand; it means that we will not allow money to be a god for us; it means that Christians will accept the personal responsibility to change some of their sinful behaviors. After the tragedies that have happened in our world, after the terrorism attacks and the killings in schools, after the retaliatory wars that are initiated, we wonder whether we are recognizing that we have a problem. The problem may be simply that we are lost and that we have accepted no direction from anyone besides ourselves. Every Christian must acknowledge that Jesus and what he has given to us is the solution. He really is the way, the truth and the life. He is “all that we need.” |
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THOUGHT
What
changes would be made in our world if we really accepted Jesus to
be the way, the truth and the life?
Good
and gracious
God, your Son
has shown us the way. He
is the truth
that we accept. It is his life that we should imitate. Help us see
that we must accept him totally
into our lives; he is your Son who is truly all that we need. Help
us adjust our lives accordingly. Be
with us, we pray.
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©2007 Capuchin
Province of Mid-America
Fr. Mike Scully is a member of the Capuchin Province of Mid-America |
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